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WEISS, Geo. W .:
County Superintendent; born in Milford Township. Bucks County, Pa .. His father died when he was but sixteen years old; he cominenced to teach school when he was seventeen years old; he attended Freeland Seminary; afterward attended the Millersville State Normal School, from which institution he was graduated with honors in 1870. He was offered the prin- cipalship of the Port Carbon schools im- mediately after his graduation, which he accepted and filled very satisfactorily for seven years; in 1877 he resigned at Port Carbon and accepted a similar position in Schuylkill Haven, which position he ac- ceptably filled for four years. He was then a candidate for the County Superin- tendency of Schuylkill County for the
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first time, and was elected, which position he has held since. In 1876 he was mar- ried to Harriet Henderson of Port Car- bon. Before his election as County Su- perintendent he gave instruction at six local Normal Schools, which were well attended by teachers of Schuylkill Coun- ty. He had twenty years' experience in teaching before his election as County Superintendent. He was a member of the Committee of Permanent Certificates for eight years. The public schools of Schuyl- kill County under his supervision are un- excelled by any county in the State. Dur- ing his administration the Directors' Asso- ciation of Schuylkill County, the first or- ganization of its kind in the State, was organized. He instituted Arbor Day two years before Arbor Day was instituted by the State Superintendent. He is well thought of by all with whom he comes in contact. Address, Schuylkill Haven, Pa.
WEISS. John H .:
Jurist; born near Shaefferstown, Leba- non County, Pa., Feb. 23, 1840; his period of attendance in the county schools was followed by two years in the Millersville State Normal School, and a term in Jefferson College, where he graduated in 1863; he then began the study of law at Harrisburg. was admitted to the bar of Dauphin County in 1865, and to that of Lebanon County in 1867; then practiced alone until 1882, when he became a part- ner of Hon. L. D. Gilbert, the firm .being known as Weiss & Gilbert; this firm enjoyed a large and profitable prac- tice till, 1599, when Governor Stone ap- pointed Mr. Weiss additional Judge of Dauphin County, this being followed by his election to this position in November of that year. On the death of Judge Simonton. Feb. 12, 1903. Judge Weiss became President Judge of the court; an earnest Republican for nearly a quarter of a century, he was chairman of the Dauphin County Republican Committee. Address, Harrisburg, Pa.
WEISS, Samuel:
State Senator from Lebanon County; was born in South Lebanon Township. that county, Aug. 20, 1845; was raised on his father's farm and educated in the public schools, Lebanon Academy and Millersville Normal School; studied medi- cine, graduated from Bellevue Medical College, New York, and began the prac- tice of his profession in Lebanon in 1972, where he has since continued in it; has
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been county physician for sixteen years, Director of the People's National Bank and of the Valley National Bank. and also on the surgical and gynealogical staff of the Good Samaritan Hospital of Leba- non, since its establishment, about eight years ago; was elected to the Senate Feb. 21, 1899, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of General J. P. S. Gobin upon his assumption of the office of Lieutenant Governor; re-elected in No- vember, 1900. Address, Lebanon, Pa.
WELDIN, Lewis C .:
Civil Engineer; born in Delaware and received his early education at the pri- vate schools of Wilmington, Del., later taking a course of civil engineering in the polytechnic college of the State of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1875; in the fall of the same year he entered the em- ploy of the Pennsylvania Railroad as draughtsman; in 1900 opened in Pittsburg a construction and engineer's office and is making a specialty of coal and coke operations and railroad work. Address, Frick Building, Pittsburg. Pa.
WELLER, John C .:
Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives from Somerset County; was born in Somerset, that county, Pa., Aug. 31, 1852, in the old stone jail, his father being Sheriff of Somerset County at that time; educated in the public schools and the Millersville State Normal School, graduating from the latter in- stitution in 1ST5; taught in the public schools ten years, and was Superintend- ent of the schools of Somerset County six years; served as Justice of the Peace five terms; is at present engaged in farming; was nominated for Associate Judge in 1901. but before the general election the judicial district was divided, Somerset County becoming a separate district and the office of Associate Judge was discontinued; was a member of the House of Representatives. sessions of 1891 and 1893; re-elected in November, 1902. Address, Gebhart, Pa.
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WELLS, Calvin:
Manufacturer and newspaper proprie- tor; born in Genessee County. N. Y .. Dec. 26, 1827; was educated in the public schools and the Western University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently became bookkeeper for Dr. C. G. Hussey, whose partner he became in 1962. under the firm title of Hussey & Wells. In 1:59 the
firm title became Hussey, Wells & Co., steel manufacturers, Mr. Wells filling the post of General Manager of the company till 1876, when he sold his interest to Dr. Hussey; while thus engaged he had. in 1865, become interested in the car spring industry, as a member of the firm of A. French & Co .; continued in this till 1884. when he soll his interest to Mr. French: other manufacturing interests in which he has been, and still is, concerned are the Illinois Zinc Company, of Peru, III.,
manufacturers of sheet zinc, spelter and sulphuric acid, of which he has been President and Treasurer since 1870; and the Pittsburg Forge & Iron Company. of which he has been President since 1878. In 1878 he became a newspaper proprietor, purchasing the Philadelphia Press, an influential Republican journal established by John W. Forney in 1857; of this paper is still the proprietor, it being since 1SS0 under the editorship of Hon. Charles Emory Smith, late Post- master General. Office address, Press, Philadelphia, Pa.
WELLS, Chester:
Lieutenant United States Navy; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Naval Cadet, Nov. 15, 1SS9, honorably discharged June 30, 1895; Assistant En- gineer, April 17, 1836; rank changed to Ensign March 3, 1899; Lieutenant (junior grade). April 17, 1899; Lieutenant, July 12. 1901: Concord. 1893-1896: Texas. 1896; Solace, December 1896-1901; torpedo sta- tion, 1901-1903. Since May 6, 1903. on United States Steamship Baltimore. in charge of Engineering Department. Ad- dress, care Navy Department, Washing- ton, D. C.
WELLS, Howard :
Medieal Inspector United States Navy; born in Pennsylvania; appointed Assist- ant Surgeon Dec. 12. 1873; Colorado, North Atlantic Station, 1874; Worcester, North Atlantic Fleet, 1875; Hartford. North Atlantic Fleet. 1875-1877. Pro- moted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1876; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, 1877-1878; training ship Constitution, 1879-1881; Na-
val Hospital. Philadelphia, 1982-1984;
Monongahela, store ship, 1>81-1885: Hart- ford. Pacifle Station. 1885-1866: January to May, 1887. United States Steamship Independence: training ship Jamestown. 1887-1988. Promoted to Surgeon. June. 1888: Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1888, to September, 1821; special duty, Navy Yard.
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Portsmouth, N. H., 1891 to 1892; training ship Portsmouth, 1892 to 1834; Montgom- ery, September, 1894; United States re- ceiving ship Vermont, August, 1895; mem- ber Medical Examining Board, New York, January, 1897, to 1998; Chicago, Dec. 1, 1898-1901; Medical Inspector, Jan. 15, 1900; Navy Yard, Boston, September, 1301, 10 1903; Naval Hospital. Newport, R. I., since Oct. 2, 1903. Address, Naval Hos- pital, Narragansett Bay, R. I.
WELLS, Lewis S .:
Born in Norristown. Pa., March 27, 1830; was graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in the class of 1850; studied law under G. Rodnam Fox, Esq., of Norristown; entered the United States War Department at Washington, D. C., in 1861 and was for four years thereafter chief of the accounting divi- sion of the Quartermaster General's office. Admitted to practice in the Superior Court of the United States; 1873-1903 agent of the State of Pennsylvania to set- tle the war claims of the State against the United States, arising during the re- bellion of 1861. settling among other claims the Direct Tax Refund and the Ili- terest Refund clain ; married Anna Vir- ginia, daughter of Isaiah Thropp, of Val- ley Forge, Pa. Address. 1311 N St., N. W., Washington, D. C.
WELLS, Samuel Calvin:
Journalist; born in Pittsburg, Nov. 20. 1849; son of Rev. Samuel Taggart and Catherine Wells; educated in the public schools and Princeton University, 1869- 1873; spent his early life in Pennsylvania, Iowa and California; married in 18ST, to Virginia C. Haines, Studied law and was admitted to bar at Pittsburg in 1876; on editorial staff the Philadelphia Press since 1879: editor-in-chief. 1890-1832 and 1898-1901, during absence of Charles Emory Smith. Address, 3212 Wallace St.
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WELLS. William Hughes:
Physician; born in West Philadelphia, Sept. 25, 1859: son of Hughes and Letitia S. Wells; he was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, and by private tutors; he was graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1991; married. 1898, to Mary Anderson. Demonstrator of clini- cal obstetrics, Jefferson Medical College; chief of the gynaecological staff, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Philadelphia: member of the Philadelphia County Medical Society; Fellow College Physicians, Philadelphia,
and of gynaecological section of the same; member of the Pediatric Society. Editor: Landis' "Compend of Obstetrics," 1894; author of "Compend of Gynecology,' 1896; "Taylor and Wells' Manual Diseases of Children" (with Dr. J. Madison Tay- lor), 1898; contributor to medical press. Address. 333 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WELSH, Thomas W:
Cashier of the Second National Bank, Pittsburg, Pa., since 1876. After working his way through the various grades of promotion he was made cashier in 18S8. Address, Liberty Ave, and Ninth St., Pittsburg, Pa.
WELSH, William Ernest:
Captain United States Army; born in and appointed from Pennsylvania; Cadet Military Academy, June 17, 1890; Second Lieutenant Eighth Infantry, June 12, 1894; First Lieutenant Tenth Infantry, April 26, 1898; Captain Thirtieth Infantry, Feb. 2, 1901. Address, World's Fair Station, St. Louis, Mo.
WENK. J. E .:
Editor of the Forest Republican; son of Jacob and Dorothea Mathe Wenk, na- tives of Germany; was born in Tionesta, Dec. 13, 1853; reared in his native bor- ough and educated in the public schools. Learned the printer's trade in the office of the Forest County Bee (now Forest Republican) ; after ten years' faithful ser- vice, he purchased the Forest Republican, in 1879, and has since successfully con- ducted it as editor and proprietor; was twice a representative of his county in the State Legislature, being first elected in 1894, and re-elected in 1896; among the committees on which he served were the Judiciary Local. Congressional Appor- tionment, Pensions and Gratuities; was instrumental in getting the new method of distribution of common school appro- priation which gave to Forest County double the amount it formerly received. On April 20, 1882, was married to Lois Florence, daughter of Daniel Stowe and Elizabeth Spence Knox, who died in Au- gust, 1898; was again married in Sep- tember, 1900, to Mrs. Ella Leech Kerr, of Marienville, Pa. Address, Tionesta, Pa.
WENRICH, Reuben D .:
Sanitarium proprietor: born in Lower Heidelburg Township, Berks County, Pa .. May 15, 1642 on an estate which had been in the family since 1739; attended
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the common schools of the vicinity, seve- ral academies, Millersville Normal School and the Duff Mercantile College, Philadel- phia, where he graduated in 1861; had previously taught school for four win- ters, and after graduating entered the Medical School of the University of Penn- sylvania, graduating as M. D. in 1864. Mr. Wenrich praetieed medicine at Wer- nersville, Pa., till 1873, after which he engaged with Dr. J. W. Deppin in coal, lumber, limestone and other lines of busi- ness, and in 1879 purchased, in associa- tion with Dr. Deppen, the traet of land since known as Grand View Sanitarium, of which he has been superintendent for twenty-five years; it is situated on the slope of the South Mountains, in Lower Heidelberg Township, and is notable for the healthfulness of its air and climatic conditions. For several years Dr. Wen- rich has been sole proprietor of the sani- tarium, which has greatly prospered under his care; his son, George C., is associated with him in its management. Address, Grand View Sanitarium, Berks County, Pa.
WENTLING, John F .:
Lawyer; born near Irwin, Pa .; educated in the Sewickley and Saitsburg Acade- mies, and became a public school teacher; began the study of law in 1866, under James A. Logan, of Greensburg, and was admitted to the Westmoreland County bar in 186S. Mr. Wentling soon gained a prominent standing at the bar, alike in the civil and crimnial courts; for many years he has been engaged in nearly all the important homicide cases in his county: has tried many cases for the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Carnegie Steel Company and other corporations, but the bulk of bis practice has been against. instead of for, these corporations; in ad- dition to his legal duties he has been to some extent engaged in land and coal industries. Address, Greensburg, Pa.
WERDER, Xavier Oswald, M. D .:
Was born in Cham, Switzerland, Dec. 4, 1857; edmented partly in his native country and partly in the United States. having reached this country, in 1873, at the age of sixteen; prepared for the medical profession in the University of New York and graduated in 1879. Soon after engaged in general practice in Pitts- burg; in 1989 he again took up his resi- dence in Pittsburg: member of the Alle- Sheny County Medical Society, the South 1
Side Medical Society, the American Medi- cal Association, and the American Asso- ciation of Obstetricians and Gynaecolo- gists; is also one of the founders of the Pittsburg Medical Review; married Oct. 20, 1885, to Tillie C., daughter of Joseph Vogel, of Pittsburg. Democrat in poli- tics. Address, 524 Penn Ave., Pittsburg, Pa.
WERTHEIMER, E .:
President of the Freeport Bank. Ad- dress, Freeport, Armstrong County, Pa.
WERTZ, Peter:
President of the Farmers' Trust Com- pany. Address, Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pa.
WEST, Harry F .:
President of the Penn Mutual Life In- suranee Company; born in Philadelphia, May 11, 1834. His ancestors for several generations were natives of Pennsylvania and Delaware; some were connected with the merchant marine of the country, and others actively participated in the War of Independence and that of 1812; entered the Philadelphia High School with the graduating class of July, 1852; entered the office of Samuel and William Welsh, shipping and importing merchants, of Philadelphia. Entered into partnership with John W. Powell, under the firm name of Powell & West, continuing for seven years in the mercantile business; was then elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Philadelphia Warehouse Company, and during 1881-1895 was President; was a Director of the Girard National Bank; Land Title and Trust Company; Norfolk and Western Railroad; Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company; Western Savings Fund Society, and other organizations with which he has been closely identified for many years; was also one of the Trustees for the reorganization of the of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company. 1886-18\S. and President of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. During the War of the Rebellion served in 1962 as First Sergeant of Company D, Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers, and in 1863, dur- ing the Gettysburg campaign. as Second Lieutenant of Company D, Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Vohmteers; he is a member of the Grand Army of the Re- public; was Vice President and Treasurer of the Union League of Philadelphia, and is connected as Director and otherwise with many social organizations. Elected
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a Trustee of the Penn Mutual Life Insur- ance Company in 1SS4; he became Vice President in 1895, and has been President since July, 1897. Address, care of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Phila- delphia, Pa.
WEST, James A .:
President of the South Sharon Trust Company. Address, Sharon, Mercer Coun- ty, Pa.
WESTCOTT, Thompson Seiser:
Physician; born in Philadelphia, June 11, 1862; son of Thompson and Mary Westcott; educated in the Friends' School of Philadelphia, 1869-1877; graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1882, and from the Medical Department same, 1886; married, 1893, to Marie Louise Rep- plier. Instructor of diseases of children, University of Pennsylvania, 1896; visiting physician of the Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia, since 1893; mem-
ber Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Beta Kappa Fraternity; Fellow College Physicians of Philadelphia, American Pediatric Society, Pathological Society of Philadelphia, Pedi- atric Society of Philadelphia, County Medical Society; Assistant Editor Ameri- can Textbook of Diseases of Children, 1894, 1898; contributor to medical journals. Address, 1833 Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WESTINGHOUSE, George:
Inventor of the celebrated Westing- house air brake; was born at Central Bridge, Schoharie County, N. Y., on the 6th of October, 1846; his parents were George and Emeline Vedder Westing- house. The father's ancestors came from Germany and settled in Massachusetts and Vermont before the Revolution; the mother's were Dutch-English. Mr. West- inghouse's father was an inventor, who. in 1856, removed with his family to Sche- nectady, New York, where he established the Schenectady Agricultural Works. The boy attended the public and high schools of the town, spending much of his leisure time, after studies, in his fath- er's machine shop, and the experience de- rived therefrom enabled him, before he was fifteen, to invent and make a rotary engine, and also to pass, at an early age. the examination for the position of Assist- ant Engineer in the United States Navy. From June, 1863, to June, 1865, he served, first in the army, and afterward in the navy. At the close of the war he ten- dered his resignation, and was honor- ably discharged August 1, 1$65. On his return he entered Union College, where
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he remained till the close of his sopho- more year, when he abadoned his classi- cal studies and entered upon active life, to find a wider scope for his inventive gen- ius. In 1865, he invented a device for re- placing railroad cars upon the track. Going to Troy one day, a delay, caused by a collision between two freight trains. suggested to Mr. Westinghouse the idea that a brake under the control of the engineer might have prevented the acci- dent, and in that moment one of the most useful and beneficent devices known to mankind was born. Among the de- vices which his mind suggested, was a brake actuated by the cars closing upon each other. His first plan proving impracticable, the use of compressed air suggested itself, being free from many of the objections found in using steam. Drawings of the air-pump, brake cylin- ders and valves were made, but consider- able time elapsed before a practical trial of the brake was obtained. The first patent was issued April 13, 1869, and The Westinghouse Air-Brake Company was formed on the 20th of July following. The first orders received for the ap- paratus were from the Michigan Central Railway and the Chicago & Northwest- ern Railway. Many changes and im- provements were being made in the brake all the while, the business flourished, and the manufacturing works, begun in 1869, were completed in 1870. In 1871 Mr. Westinghouse went abroad to introduce the air-brake in England-a difficult problem, as the trains in Europe had hand-brakes upon only what were known as "brake-vans," there being no brakes upon the other vehicles. Not only did this require the spending of seven years in Europe, between 1871 and 1$$2, but it taxed his inventive ability considerably to meet the new conditions of railroad practice. In the meantime, Mr. West- inghouse invented the "automatic" feat- ure of the brake which overcame the im- perfections in the first form, and re- moved the danger from the parting of trains on steep grades. In 18S6, he in- vented the "quick-action" brake, the im- provement being made in what is known as the "triple-valve." By this improved valve it became practicable to apply all the brakes on a train of fifty freight cars in two seconds. The automatic and quick-action brakes are regarded by ex- perts as far surpassing the original brake in ingenuity and inventive genius, being not mere improvements, but distinct in-
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ventions of the highest class, unique and remarkable. In 1883, Mr. Westinghouse became interested in the operation of railway signals and switches by com- pressed air, and developed and patented the system now manufactured by the Union Switch and Signal Company. The "Pneumatic Interlocking Switch and Signal Apparatus," whereby all the sig- nals and switches are operated from a given point, using compressed air as the motive power, and electricity to bring that power into operation, has been suc- cessfully introduced in Boston, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis and many other places. Mr. Westing- house was among the first to foresee the advantages of alternating current as a means of transmitting electricity over long distances, and the fight to introduce this system was carried on by him sin- gle-handed against incredible opposition. The induction motor, the invention of which was the outcome of the genius of Nikola Tesla, was put on a commercial footing by Mr. Westinghouse. Among his accomplishments in the electrical field may be mentioned the unit switch sys- tem of multiple control for the simulta- neous operation and control from one common point of all the motors in a train; and the new single phase motor for street railway service, this use of electricity being heretofore confined to direct current. The Westinghouse Elec- tric & Manufacturing Company was or- ganized in 15$6 for the manufacture of electrical apparatus, and the business of this company has developed so rapidly as to now necessitate the employment at its East Pittsburg plant of about ten thonsand hands. The electrical business developed by Mr. Westinghouse has found its way to foreign territory, and extensive works have been established at Trafford Park, Manchester, England, and at Le Havre, France. Besides the work already described Mr. Westinghouse has taken a foremost part in the development of the gas engine and the steam turbine, both of which are built by The Westing- house Machine Company, at East Pitts- burg, Pa. The Sawyer-Man incandescent lamp, the Nernst lamp and the Cooper- Hewitt mercury vapor lamp were all put on a commercial basis by . Mr. Westing- house. He was also the moving spirit in the exploitation of natural gas in the Pittsburg distriet, his special merit com- ing from working out its piping over long distances, which was at first thought im-
possible. He is President of almost all of about thirty companies, with which he is connected, the most of which bear his name. Prominent among these compa- nies are The Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, Pa .; The Westing- house Brake Company, Limited, London, England; Westinghouse Electric & Manu- facturing Company, East Pittsburg, Pa .; The British Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, Limited, Lon- don, England; The Westinghouse Machine Company, East Pittsburg, Pa., The Union
switch Signal Company, Swissvale, Pa .; Pittsburg Meter Company, East Pittsburg, Pa .; Canadian Westinghouse Company, Limited, Hamilton, Canada; Nernst Lamp Company, Pittsburg, Pa. The combined capital of these compa- nies is about $100,000.000. Was married Aug. 8, 1867, at Brooklyn, N. Y., to Mar- guerite Erskine Walker. They have one son, George Westinghouse, Jr., who is a student at Yale University. Mr. West- inghouse has residences at Pittsburg, Pa., Washington, D. C., and Lenox, Mass.
WETHERILL, John Price:
Member of the Pennsylvania Command- ery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion; eldest son of deceased Companion Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Weth- erill; private Forty-third Pennsylvania (Militia) Infantry July 6, 1863; mustered out Aug. 10, 1863. Elected May 4, 1887. Address, 2014 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.
WETHERHAL,, Richard:
Engine builder and capitalist; born in Lower Merion. Montgomery County, Pa., Sept. 28, 1850; was educated in public schools of Philadelphia, Pa., and Chester Academy, Chester, Pa. Entered a drug store as junior clerk, and later appointed to a clerkship in the Philadelphia, Wil- mington & Baltimore Railway, stationed at Wilmington. Del. Soon after attaining his majority, on Jan. 1, 1872, he entered into partnership with his brother, the firm being Robert Wetherill & Co. Mr. Wetherill was from 1886 to 1832 Vice President of the Standard Steel Casting Co., was president of the Delaware County Gas Co., until the sale of the plant to the Suburban Gas Company; a director of the Chester National Bank from its initiation; President of the Ches- ter & Media Electric Railway Company; one of the Trustees of the Pennsylvania Military College; member of the Union League of Philadelphia, the Penn Club. Chester, and Spring Haven Country Club
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